Fair is Fair

[gabby]

US Airways CEO Doug Parker's base salary will not go up — standing at $550,000 — but the airline's board pushed through raise for four other top executives at the airlines, according to The Charlotte Observer (free registration). Executives seeing bigger base salaries will be Executive Vice President Jeffrey McClelland (up to $425,000 from $400,000); Executive Vice President Scott Kirby ($425,000 from $380,000); CFO Derek Kerr ($300,000 from $262,000); and Executive Vice President Al Crellin ($400,000 from $347,000). Those numbers come from a filing made by US Airways to the federal securities, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. And while Parker's base salary remains set, he's eligible for up to $1.1 million in performance bonuses, though neither paper said what performance marks the airline would have to be hit for the bonuses to kick in. The carrier said the adjustments were made after reviewing top-level compensation at other airlines.

So after reviewing horizon's wages i feel we should be compensated equally. Doug Parker said it himself.

 

[BeenThereDoneThat]

US Airways CEO Doug Parker's base salary will not go up — standing at $550,000 — but the airline's board pushed through raise for four other top executives at the airlines, according to The Charlotte Observer (free registration). Executives seeing bigger base salaries will be Executive Vice President Jeffrey McClelland (up to $425,000 from $400,000); Executive Vice President Scott Kirby ($425,000 from $380,000); CFO Derek Kerr ($300,000 from $262,000); and Executive Vice President Al Crellin ($400,000 from $347,000). Those numbers come from a filing made by US Airways to the federal securities, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. And while Parker's base salary remains set, he's eligible for up to $1.1 million in performance bonuses, though neither paper said what performance marks the airline would have to be hit for the bonuses to kick in. The carrier said the adjustments were made after reviewing top-level compensation at other airlines.

So after reviewing horizon's wages i feel we should be compensated equally. Doug Parker said it himself.

So much for DP's cost neutral rhetoric. :down:

 

[Twicebaked]

So much for DP's cost neutral rhetoric. :down:

Does DP REALLY think after everything that he is giving his cronies that we are going to take a "concessionary" cost neutral contract.

If he does, he is a bigger idiot than Crelin!!

 

[smfav8r]

Y'all should push for parity plus a percentage (hopefully more than 1%).....kind of like the contract we had at U.....Just make sure the crappy contracts are left out of the mix or with the lowest weighted percentage.

Don't really see that happening again...but it's worth a shot.

 

[flyingcat]

Y'all should push for parity plus a percentage (hopefully more than 1%).....kind of like the contract we had at U.....Just make sure the crappy contracts are left out of the mix or with the lowest weighted percentage.

Don't really see that happening again...but it's worth a shot.

Ah yes parity plus one.

Does anyone want to recall just how well it worked out for the carriers involved or should I?

And before anyone screams about Southwest, let me ask you this if it weren't for their hedges you can bet they would have renegotiated their contract faster than you can say concession.

Southwest has a management that has made it their mission in life to not be an airline that has the dubious distinction of paying the most in any category.

 

[TheNewUSAirways]

<yawwnnn> this is OLD news ..these are the same salary increases announced right after the merger. And while I agree that executives make too much money . .as DP pointed out, the total combined salaries of top execs went down . .since the number of execs was greatly reduced.

 

[BeenThereDoneThat]

<yawwnnn> this is OLD news ..these are the same salary increases announced right after the merger. And while I agree that executives make too much money . .as DP pointed out, the total combined salaries of top execs went down . .since the number of execs was greatly reduced.

It may be OLD NEWS, but it doesn’t have to go unchallenged. DP sat on an amenable contract for the mechanics for 3 years. The contract issue could have been resolved prior to the AWA/US Air merger. During this time none of the 800+ people, covered by this contract, received any type pay raise. Now we are stuck with a contract that is not amendable until 2010. To increase some execs pay between $23 and $53 thousand dollars each reflects how DP feels towards the people that maintain the aircraft. If the combined salaries of top execs went down, then cost neutral would dictate nobody would get a pay increase. That is what will be preached to the masses. If the execs deserve a pay increase, then so does everybody else that has gone without until now. It is just one more thing that makes people feel like they have really been :mf_boff: You can yawwnn all you want.

 

[Dorf]

<yawwnnn> .as DP pointed out, the total combined salaries of top execs went down . .since the number of execs was greatly reduced.

With that logic.....every employee on the property should get a huge raise since there are far fewer employees now than there were....for example: on the east side there are over 1500 fewer pilots....so according to your logic, the remaining ones should get an increase in pay and benefits as long as the total combined salaries are less than it was with all the pilots on the property.

 

[whodoiworkfor]

Cost neutral only applies to flight attendants and pilots. If you work at the sand castle you get raises all the time!!!!! COST NEUTRAL = CHAOS!